DaMailMan
First time out of the vault

When it comes to the show's strengths, I think that worldbuilding is definitely not one of them. I kept putting myself in the shoes of someone new to the Fallout series and asking myself "What is this? Where are we? How does this work?" and I can't imagine they were anything but confused.
Lucy emerges from Vault 4 in the middle of a vast sandy desert...somewhere. There's a pier nearby so apparently on a coastline, but which one? The vault door is exposed and visible, has no one come by this way in all this time? Lucy and Maximus just walk through a vast desert dotted with rundown shacks and nothing else, and there are people just kinda living there. In a desert, what do they drink and eat? Why haven't they fixed and cleaned up these shacks? Why are so many living alone instead of in communities or family groups, like humanity has done since forever? We then find a town, Filly, in the middle of a forest. Who runs this town? Who keeps order and protects it from raiders? Why didn't this area become a desert? Why doesn't everyone just live here?
Similarly, the BOS. I know what the BOS is all about being a Fallout nerd, but for new fans: why do they have power armor and vertibirds and no one else? How come their base has no walls or fences? What is their ideology, history, motivations, worries, short and long term ambitions? Why don't they just take over everything if they have such superior technology?
Also The Enclave exists...somewhere...and that's it. Who are they, what do they want, how do they survive?
Finally, the NCR. Shady Sands is the capital, but it's also just one city in a nation with many settlements. Where is everyone? Did the entire country fall apart when once city was taken out? Why? If so, where are the remaining trade routes, roads, flags and banners, literature, artwork, police and military, medical services, irrigations systems, farms, currency, energy production, etc? Why is there almost no evidence that they existed just a handful of years after collapsing? As a diehard New Vegas nerd, I admit this one has me a bit testy.
What did you guys think? From a hypothetical new fan perspective to veteran fan perspective, how well did they establish the world?
Lucy emerges from Vault 4 in the middle of a vast sandy desert...somewhere. There's a pier nearby so apparently on a coastline, but which one? The vault door is exposed and visible, has no one come by this way in all this time? Lucy and Maximus just walk through a vast desert dotted with rundown shacks and nothing else, and there are people just kinda living there. In a desert, what do they drink and eat? Why haven't they fixed and cleaned up these shacks? Why are so many living alone instead of in communities or family groups, like humanity has done since forever? We then find a town, Filly, in the middle of a forest. Who runs this town? Who keeps order and protects it from raiders? Why didn't this area become a desert? Why doesn't everyone just live here?
Similarly, the BOS. I know what the BOS is all about being a Fallout nerd, but for new fans: why do they have power armor and vertibirds and no one else? How come their base has no walls or fences? What is their ideology, history, motivations, worries, short and long term ambitions? Why don't they just take over everything if they have such superior technology?
Also The Enclave exists...somewhere...and that's it. Who are they, what do they want, how do they survive?
Finally, the NCR. Shady Sands is the capital, but it's also just one city in a nation with many settlements. Where is everyone? Did the entire country fall apart when once city was taken out? Why? If so, where are the remaining trade routes, roads, flags and banners, literature, artwork, police and military, medical services, irrigations systems, farms, currency, energy production, etc? Why is there almost no evidence that they existed just a handful of years after collapsing? As a diehard New Vegas nerd, I admit this one has me a bit testy.
What did you guys think? From a hypothetical new fan perspective to veteran fan perspective, how well did they establish the world?